School of Art Announces New Co-Directorship

The Lamar Dodd School of Art is pleased to officially announce that Dr. Isabelle Wallace and Professor Michael Marshall have been named interim co-directors of the Lamar Dodd School of Art. 
 
Dr. Wallace and Professor Marshall have been part of the leadership team of the School of Art for the past five years as Associate Director of Research and Graduate Studies, and Associate Director of Curriculum respectively. Their leadership and vision have been central to many key initiatives on the undergraduate and graduate level, and together they have been instrumental in developing and implementing new programs, majors, and minors. 
 
The Dean’s appointment of Dr. Wallace and Professor Marshall as co-directors reflects the upper administration’s confidence that they will be conscientious and inspiring stewards of the School, expertly facilitating its commitment to research and innovation, as well as its mission to prepare students not only for careers as creative professionals, but also for their vital role as conscientious, empathetic, and engaged citizens. 
 
Professor Michael Marshall is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Art at the Dodd and Director of the Social Ecology Studio. Marshall completed his graduate studies at Arizona State University where he worked on the collaborative Third View Project, engaging place, culture and time across the landscape of the American West. He started teaching at the UGA in 2001. For fifteen years his personal work explored the intersections of science and the left brained sensibility of intuition and emotion, a mirror of his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Studio Art. Over that time his work ranged from delicate platinum prints to mixed media constructions of digital printing, encaustic and wood. His newest research encompasses social practice, utilizing art to engage issues of the environment, sustainability and resilience, intersecting with community enrichment and vitalization. Professor Marshall is a passionate teacher, drawing out the personal aspirations of his students, and helping to guide and challenge their development. He is a recipient of UGA’s Service-Learning Teaching Excellence Award, UGA’s Sustainability Outstanding Faculty Award and a Southeast Honored Educator Award from the Society for Photographic Education.

Dr. Isabelle Loring Wallace is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. She is an award-winning teacher whose research focuses on a wide range of objects and images, ranging from mid-twentieth-century American painting to early twenty-first-century photography, video, and installation. She is the author of numerous articles and exhibition catalogue essays on artists such as Manet, Duchamp, Jenny Saville, Wim Delvoye, Steven Meisel and Paul Pfeiffer, and the co-editor of two anthologies that reflect her commitment to thinking about contemporary art within broad cultural and historical contexts: Contemporary Art and Classical Myth, co-edited with Jennie Hirsh (Ashgate 2011) and Contemporary Art About Architecture: A Strange Utility co-edited with Nora Wendl (Ashgate 2013). In addition, Professor Wallace is also author of Jasper Johns (Phaidon, 2014) and is currently completing a second book on Johns that considers his work in conjunction with contemporaneous developments in the fields of genetics and psychoanalysis. Simultaneously, she is working on a new project that considers recurring intersections between new media art and assorted Judeo-Christian themes. At the Dodd, she teaches undergraduate- and graduate-level courses on postwar visual culture, as well as the art history area’s required seminar on historiography and methods.

Please help us warmly welcome Isabelle Wallace and Michael Marshall as the new co-directors of Lamar Dodd School of Art.